I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. I study literature and science in the long eighteenth century, with interests in literary space, the digital humanities, the geography of colonialism, and the oceanic humanities. Previously, I earned a PhD in English at Stanford University, where I was part of the Core Research Team of the Stanford Literary Lab.

My driving research interest is considering the formal features of British eighteenth-century writing to help understand the long shadow that empire continues to cast over our world and our knowledge of it: how, for example, narrative perspective in Gothic fiction connects to epistemic norms in science and to the spatial manuevers of colonial seafaring. My work has appeared in PMLA, Space and Literary Studies (Cambridge UP: 2025), Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Cultural Analytics and Post45.

I have designed and taught courses spanning British and postcolonial literature, epidemiology, science and technology studies, the digital humanities, and computer science.

Before graduate school, I worked as a mathematics teacher and tutor, and I received a B.A. with comprehensive honors in mathematics and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.